Davis v. Taylor

Per Curiam:

1. Where one of the parties to a written contract or cause of action in issue or on trial answers interrogatories sued out in the cause before his death, and after his death they are introduced in evidence in the ease, the opposite party is a competent witness to testify in rebuttal of the evidence contained in the interrogatories respecting transactions and communications with the witness. See McNair v. Brown, 147 Ga. 161 (93 S. E. 289). It was not error for the court to admit the testimony of the defendant, Taylor, as complained of in the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th grounds of the motion for a new trial.

Decided November 17, 1921.

Eviction; from Ben Hill superior court — Judge Gower. May 16, 1921.

Eldridge Cutts, for plaintiff in error. A. J. & J. C. McDonald, contra.

2. Where one enters into possession of lands under a contract of purchase he cannot be dispossessed by summary proceedings against him as a tenant. Griffith v. Collins, 116 Ga. 421 (42 S. E. 743). The question as to the validity of the contract in this case should have been submitted to the jury, as there was a sharp conflict in the evidence upon this point.

3. Under the above rulings it was error for the court to direct a verdict in favor of the defendant.

Judgment reversed.

Broyles, C. J., and Bloodworth, J., concur. Luke, J., dissents.